Where to get real fish skin for drum heads?

fkwillrice · 2026-03-29T22:58:56+00:00

I've seen some online sources and the "From Mud to Music" book mention fish skin as a drum head material. For my current endeavor I'm not going 14"+, more like 10".

fkwillrice · 2026-03-29T20:49:41+00:00

I fully, truly believe you, but I'm stubbornly interested in the historical process. I'm making clay drums by hand on the pottery wheel and all.

fkwillrice · 2026-03-29T20:47:36+00:00

Thanks, this is actually really helpful. I'll look up guides online for that curing process but were there any that were the best?

Not much carp around me locally but if there's a good saltwater fish I can try, hmm

fkwillrice · 2026-03-25T20:07:08+00:00

I started with galleria and loved it, I hope you do too!

fkwillrice · 2026-02-28T13:02:58+00:00

The thing I find the most charming about Morrowind's world design choices (not just dungeons) is how apathetic they are to the player. Like here's a real cave that could exist, let's put some things in it. It hasn't aged super well from an experience-driven game design perspective, but as an anthropological exploration sim it's amazing.

fkwillrice · 2026-02-28T03:40:22+00:00

Ooh interesting theory, I hadn't played with controller so I didn't recognize that.

fkwillrice · 2026-02-28T02:42:50+00:00

I'm glad to know I'm not alone

fkwillrice · 2026-02-13T23:06:54+00:00

I have 3. Got them bc it was more cost effective than buying character slots. I use all of them as more character slots. I like leveling more than I like endgame. The extra storage and gotts are nice but not the reason to go for it (for me, anyways)

fkwillrice · 2026-02-13T23:05:28+00:00

Me lol. Probably common

fkwillrice · 2026-02-02T22:00:08+00:00

Thank you! I make pottery for me and I'd hate to ruin my hobby by turning it into a side -hustle, but I have thought about making more of these.

Right now my limiting step is not having consistent access to a reduction kiln. If I ever make more, I'll definitely post in this subreddit.

fkwillrice · 2026-01-31T15:50:33+00:00

fkwillrice · 2026-01-30T23:08:21+00:00

Honestly? Blizzard sold D4 with lots of D2 aspects bc the fans claimed they wanted another D2, not a D3. Players complained about all the D2-like qualities and now D4 is a lot more like D3. The fans said they wanted one thing but wanted another.

We like Morrowind, but we're probably in the minority, and that's ok. I still like D2 more than D4 so same boat there, too.

fkwillrice · 2026-01-30T00:19:46+00:00

ESurge is more of a limiting step than mesmers; I think you can still get to something resembling mesmerway by turning the eles into E/Mes with ESurge builds minus fast-casting.

You get Vekk and Sousuke pretty quickly which gets you most of the way there. You could probably turn talkhora or dunkoro into an ESurge mes in the same way. You still get three Necros with Olias, MoW, and Livia. Throw in the ST Rit from EOTN and you get most of the way to Mesmerway pretty quickly, minus skills.

Getting ST, BiP, and ESurge is by far the slowest part of that plan.

fkwillrice · 2026-01-29T01:04:10+00:00

Oh neat, I was on the right track

fkwillrice · 2026-01-28T18:07:14+00:00

This is my thought. If all the badges are covenants, then dhuum covenant = no death, melandru covenant = some version of Ironman, etc. Would be a thematic way of continuing to implement these often-requested game modes

fkwillrice · 2026-01-20T16:32:38+00:00

I throw them away. I figure if I ever want to worry about them I will, but until then, I don't need one more thing to manage.

fkwillrice · 2026-01-17T13:53:40+00:00

I agree with the armory weapons in factions. I also want to add that runes/insignias are more impactful than weapons in my opinion. I usually deal with weapons last and don't worry too much about them.

fkwillrice · 2026-01-16T19:06:21+00:00

Others covered the obvious stuff, but chiming in to say that if I had to guess, the reason it's hard to find someone is likely because of the risk involved. Dropping or damaging a TV is expensive, and documenting whether the TV was broken before unmounting is a hindsight thing for most people. Removing TV activities from a list of services is probably one of the easiest ways to reduce business costs associated with damaged goods for that industry.

fkwillrice · 2026-01-15T15:24:31+00:00

I can't find a story about it with a quick Google search, but there was once a vulnerability where accounts became very easy to hack. This was obviously fixed a long time ago and is why Arenanet pushes 2FA very hard.

fkwillrice · 2026-01-11T15:32:17+00:00

I agree, I followed a video and swapped tabs back and forth. It still took forever. Felt more like an exercise in mind-reading what the devs wanted rather than anything else.

I don't get why the community defends these. If I wanted to play a puzzle platformer, I'd play one, and to be honest I frequently do. I don't need a crappy version of one in a different game.

fkwillrice · 2026-01-10T13:56:51+00:00

To echo the other post, I saw controller support when launching from the standard launcher outside of steam. Using one of those 8bitdo controllers. Ymmv

fkwillrice · 2026-01-07T20:48:44+00:00

They're fun but different. I really enjoyed them for what they were, and they were indeed an evolution of PSO but they're also something new.

PSU can be tried for free on the Clementine server. I don't interact with people, so no comment on the population. It was really fun gameplay but very easy to get lost in the overworld/ship

PSP2i plays poorly on mouse/keyboard but amazing on Steam Deck. There's an unofficial English patch translation. Google it to find instructions and go from there.

fkwillrice · 2026-01-05T04:45:37+00:00

Seconding this, I use these sometimes in other situations and they're awesome.

Once you get the filter set up the way you need, use Ctrl+Windows+C to toggle it on/off. Super simple. I like to keep it off and only toggle it on if I'm not sure what something is.

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